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Evening Standard
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Sami Quadri

Alarm in China as mosquito-borne virus outbreak triggers zero-Covid-style controls

A worker sprays insecticide at a public housing estate - (Reuters)

There is growing alarm in China that official efforts to contain an outbreak of Chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne disease spreading in the south of the country, are infringing on people’s rights.

In Zhanjiang, a port city in Guangdong province, a single mother posted a video this week showing a group of people – including a uniformed police officer – entering her children’s bedroom in the middle of the night and taking blood samples from her son and daughter without her consent or presence.

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